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Supreme Court rejects Trump's request to intervene in DOJ documents investigation
joe daniel price/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected former President Donald Trump's request for an independent third-party to be able to review the documents marked cla...
Oct 13, 2022
Jan. 6 hearing live updates: Committee votes to subpoena Trump
Tetra Images - Henryk Sadura/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The House Jan. 6 committee on Thursday, after a months-long hiatus, held its ninth public hearing since June, and possibly its last in its inve...
Oct 13, 2022
New York AG files injunction against Trump as part of fraud lawsuit
Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- New York Attorney General Letitia James is seeking a preliminary injunction as part of her $250 million civil lawsuit against former President Donald Trum...
Oct 13, 2022
Jan. 6 hearing to focus on Trump's 'state of mind' around Capitol attack
Photo by Mike Kline (notkalvin)/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The House Jan. 6 committee will once again dive into Donald Trump's efforts to undermine the outcome of the 2020 presidential race in a publ...
Oct 13, 2022
Is Social Security on the 'chopping block' as Biden claims? Experts weigh in
Official White House Photo by Erin Scott(WASHINGTON) -- Social Security -- long referred to as the "third rail" of American politics -- so charged as to be fatal if touched -- is back in the spotlight...
Oct 13, 2022
Treasury watchdog to probe DeSantis' use of COVID relief money to fund migrant flights
Win McNamee/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- A Treasury Department watchdog will probe whether Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis improperly used COVID-19 relief funding to pay for migrant flights, ABC N...
Oct 12, 2022
Biden, still undecided on 2024, says he can beat Trump again
Rudy Sulgan/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Will Americans see President Joe Biden on the Democratic ticket again in 2024? Biden, sitting down with CNN's Jake Tapper on Tuesday night, said he won't be mak...
Oct 12, 2022
Donald Trump must sit for deposition in defamation suit filed by E. Jean Carroll, judge says
krisanapong detraphiphat/Getty Images, FILE(NEW YORK) -- A federal judge in New York rejected for a second time on Wednesday former President Donald Trump's attempt to have the United States governmen...
Oct 12, 2022
Why Pennsylvania may not have election night results and why that's OK
boonchai wedmakawand/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Pennsylvania is unlikely to have results on election night this November, the state's top election official said Tuesday, because of a law limiting whe...
Oct 12, 2022
Biden believes Putin won't use nuclear weapons on Ukraine
Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz(WASHINGTON) -- President Joe Biden said he does not believe that Russian President Vladimir Putin would use a tactical nuclear weapon on Ukraine. “I th...
Oct 12, 2022
